Gunvor Edwards, 80, in April 2014 (Swedish illustrator with ties to "Thomas the Tank Engine")

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Born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1934, she went to art schools in Stockholm and London, moving there in 1958, after marrying a Brit.

http://rollalongthomas.blogspot.com/2014/05/gunvoredwards-dies.html
(short notice - unfortunately, I can't seem to link to the eulogy by her daughter)

She illustrated books by Enid Blyton, Ursula Moray Williams, and Anne-Cath Vestly (author of the 1970s Norwegian "Aurora" series, about a young girl, her baby brother, and her stay-at-home dad). Plus Mary Hayley Bell's "Whistle Down the Wind" and a 1975 edition of "Little Women."

Probably best known for "The Railway Series" by Rev. Wilbert Awdry, which she co-illustrated with her husband Peter Edwards.

"Characters and stories from the books formed the basis of the children's television series Thomas and Friends."

Stepney the Bluebell Engine
Mountain Engines
Very Old Engines
Main Line Engines
Small Railway Engines
Enterprising Engines
Oliver the Western Engine
Duke the Lost Engine
Tramway Engines

http://www.sodor-island.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/sifblog_gunvor.png
(photo)

http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Gunvor_and_Peter_Edwards
(more about the series; it includes a photo of the two)

http://sodoruk.tripod.com/railwayseriesillustrators.html
(about the different illustrators for the series - scroll 3/4 down)

http://www.sodor-island.net/edwards.html
(2007 interview with Peter Edwards)

Excerpt:

"SiF is quite chuffed to share an update with you from none other than Peter and Gunvor Edwards - the Railway Series illustrators from 1963 to 1972."

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gunvor+edwards%22&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&biw=1280&bih=554&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMIrvDWotKdyQIVw28-Ch3y1wxW#channel=fflb&tbm=isch&q=%22gunvor+edwards%22+books
(book covers)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7381611/
(short filmography)


WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
For young readers:

(Translator) Edith Unnerstad, Larry Makes Music (illustrated by Yiva Kaellstroem), Oliver & Boyd, 1967.

Cat Samson (self-illustrated), Abelard, 1978.

(Translator from the Danish) Stig Weimar, Norway Is Like This, Kaye & Ward, 1979.


Illustrator; for young readers:

David Thomson, Danny Fox, Penguin, 1966.
Barbara Softly, Magic People: A Book to Begin On, Oliver & Boyd, 1966, Holt, 1967.
Johanna B. Olsen, Stray Dog, translated from Norwegian by Evelyn Ramsden, Constable, 1966, Criterion, 1968.
Ursula M. Williams, The Cruise of the `Happy-Go-Gay', Hamish Hamilton, 1967, Hawthorn, 1968.
Thomson, Danny Fox Meets a Stranger, Penguin, 1968.
Gerard Bell, The Smallest King in the World, Oliver & Boyd, 1968.
Softly, More Magic People, Chatto & Windus, 1969.

Charles E. Loveman, La Douce France, Thomas Nelson, 1971.
Loveman, Mystere a Cherbourg, Thomas Nelson, 1971.
Felicia Law, Something to Make, Penguin, 1971.
Rony Robinson and W. T. Cunningham, Action in English, Thomas Nelson, Book I, 1972, Book II, 1973, Book III, 1973, Leavers' Book, 1973.
(With husband, Peter Edwards) Wilbert Awdry, Tramway Engines, Kaye & Ward, 1972.
Anne-Catharina Vestly, Hallo Aurora!, translated from Norwegian by Eileen Amos, Longman, 1973.
Williams, Tiger-Nanny, Brockhampton Press, 1973, Nelson, 1974.
Loveman, Vas-y gaiement!, Thomas Nelson, Book I, 1973, Book II, 1974, Book III, 1974.
Vestly, Aurora and the Little Blue Car, translated from Norwegian by Amos, Longman, 1974.
Molly C. Ibbotson, Daniel's Shed, Brockhampton Press, 1974.
Barbara Sleigh, Ninety-Nine Dragons, Brockhampton Press, 1974.
Frederick Grice, Tales and Beliefs, Thomas Nelson, 1974.
Vestly, Aurora and Socrates, translated from Norwegian by Amos, Kestrel Books, 1974.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, retold by Lysbeth Glibbery, Oxford University Press, 1975.
Oxford Comprehensive Mathematics: A Secondary Course for Mixed Abilities, Oxford University Press, D. Paling and M. E. Wardle, Book I, 1975, C. S. Banwell and K. D. Saunders, Book III, 1975.
Elisabeth Beresford, Snuffle to the Resuce, Puffin, 1975, Penguin, 1976.
Thomson, Danny Fox at the Palace, Puffin, 1976.
Frances Lindsay, Mr. Bits and Pieces, Hodder & Stoughton, 1976.
Margaret E. Mountjoy, German Through Reading, Heinemann, Book I: Das Haus im Baum, 1977, Book III: Alarm bei Nacht, 1977.
Graeme Kent, English Everywhere, A. Wheaton, Book II: Out and About, 1978.

Awdry, Duke and the Lost Engine, Kaye & Ward, 1980.
Felicia Law, Going to School, Octopus, 1980.
Margaret S. Barry, Maggie Gumption Files High, Hutchinson, 1981.
(Joan Smith) Grandmother's Donkey, Watts (New York, NY), 1983.
(Felcia Law) My Day at School!, Stevens (Milwaukee, WI), 1986.

(Sue Cowling) What is a Kumquat?: And Other Poems, Faber and Faber (Boston, MA), 1991.
(W. Awdry) Duke the Lost Engine, illustrations by Gunvor and Peter Edwards, Heinemann (London, England), 1995.


For adults:

(With Kay Marshall) Elizabeth M. Matterson, Play with a Purpose for Under-Sevens, Penguin, 1975.
Robina B. Willson, Musical Merry-Go-Round: Musical Activities for the Very Young, Heinemann, 1977.


Lenona.